The naming of names : the search for order in the world of plants / Anna Pavord.

Traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe, reaching its apex during the Renaissance. From Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople, Venice, the medical school at Salerno to the universities...

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Main Author:	Pavord, Anna
Language:	English
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : Bloomsbury, [2005], ©2005.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Plants > Nomenclature. Botany > History.
Genre:	Nomenclature.
Physical Description:	471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Format:	Book